Their Daughter, My Baby

By Maria Salazar Suggett

Their Daughter, My Baby tells the true story of a young woman who makes the painful and heartbreaking decision to give her first child up for adoption, at a time when unwed pregnancies (or mothers) were not accepted or supported. Told as a love story to her child, enduring love and tenacity gives her a second chance to be a part of her daughter’s life.

Their Daughter, My Baby is for any family whose lives have been touched by adoption. It inspires hope for children as they seek a path to their birth families, or birth parents who, through adoption, to find the distant child that lives in their hearts. Love waits patiently to be found.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Sep 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765232675

Maria Salazar Suggett

Maria Salazar Suggett is mother to 5 adult children and grandmother to 17. A retired educator, she was a successful grant writer for 25 years, but personal writing was an unmet goal near to her heart. In her premiere book, novella style, she writes a love story to honor her firstborn child, whom she gave up for adoption in the mid-1970’s.

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Illustrations by Wylie Schwartz

ISBN: 979-8-7652-3268-2 (sc)

ISBN: 979-8-7652-3267-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022914476

Balboa Press rev. date: 08/09/2022

CONTENTS

Prologue

I.1953: Saulimau Ioane Kalati

II.1953: Maria Elena Salazar

III.1974: Your Conception

IV.1975: Your Birth

V.1976: Your Adoptive Mother Lorraine

VI.1978: Mutual Friends

VII.1980: Meeting Your Parents

VIII.1993: Meeting You and You Meeting Your Father

IX.2003: Mau’s Death

X.1997: Your First Marriage

XI.2014: Finding You on